Barmy Biogs: Bonkers Boffins, Inventors & other Eccentric Eggheads
No. of pages 96
Published: 2016
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Find out which world-famous inventor's last breath has been captured in a test tube, which boffin loved nothing more than a roasted armadillo for lunch, and which scientist fell in love with a pigeon.
The books in the Barmy Biogs series are full of the facts that history books don't mention about some of the most famously crackpot characters in world history! Read them and history will never be the same again...
Other titles in the series:
Crackpot Kings, Queens & other Daft Royals
Dastardly Dictators, Rulers & other Loony Leaders
Potty Painters, Writers & other Barmy Artists
This book is part of a book series called Barmy Biogs .
There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Hachette Children's Group .
Paul Mason is an experienced freelance writer and editor of a variety of children's information books.
This book has the following chapters:
- 1: Bonkers Boffins introduction
- 2: Archimedes
- 3: Alexander Graham Bell
- 4: Lazlo Biro
- 5: Dr Guillotine
- 6: Louis Braille
- 7: Roxey-Ann Caplin
- 8: George Washington Carver
- 9: Josephine Cochrane
- 10: Charles Darwin
- 11: Thomas Crapper
- 12: Marie Curie
- 13: Galen
- 14: Thomas Edison
- 15: Albert Einstein
- 16: Alexander Fleming
- 17: Galileo Galilei
- 18: Hero of Alexandria
- 19: Robert Hooke
- 20: Pilatre de Rozier
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